November 22, 2017

Writing is a lonely job. You have no teammates, you’re not part of a group and you don’t have a partner. It can be really hard to keep going when it’s just you and your muse, who may or may not be cooperative depending on its mood. When Stephen King wrote the first few pages of “Carrie,” he threw it away because he thought it was crap but his wife fished it out of the trash and encouraged him to keep going. He expanded it into a novel and when it was released in paperback, it sold over one ...